North American QSO Party, CW
Call: N5DO
Operator(s): N5DO
Station: N5DO
Class: Single Op LP
QTH: TX
Operating Time (hrs): 10
Radios: SO2R
Summary:
Band QSOs Mults
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160: 41 24
80: 173 42
40: 261 48
20: 362 50
15: 30 16
10: 0 0
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Total: 867 180 Total Score = 156,060
Club: Central Texas DX and Contest Club
Team: Austin Powers Pickers
Comments:
Despite Murphy striking (twice) I had lots of fun. Three hours in a row with
great rate when I moved to 40M. I started as SO2R, but had to switch to SO1R
when Murphy visited the first time. I was using my new K3 as the run radio,
and when I noticed 15M open I decided to move the K3 to 15 to begin trying to
run there. As soon as I moved the K3 it put out 0 watts. I wasn't
particularly worried since I figured that I pressed the wrong button somewhere.
I should have stopped operating and taken my first break at that point to try
to figure things out, but instead I kept operating and trying to fix the K3 at
the same time. Eventually I discovered that if I lowered the power below 12
watts it worked fine, so I think I blew up the 100W module. I'll talk to K3
tomorrow to see about getting it fixed (or maybe I did press the wrong button).
Anyway my rate dropped during the two hours I was messing with the K3 and they
were my slowest hours of the whole contest; after I made the mental switch to
SO1R and used my FT1000MP as the run radio everything was fine again.
Murphy next struck when I went to 160M. I use a shortened half-sloper on 160M
and I spent several hours last weekend laying down some additional radials.
When I tried it out during the week using the K3 everything worked fine. When
I went to 160M last night I found that I locked up the keying circuit on the
computer, and consequently the rig. I discovered that everything worked fine
if I kept the power below 40W, so that's what I did. I was lucky in one
respect in that unlike N5AW/0 I don't have an alarm system to be triggered and
bring the police to my house in the middle of the night! (Sorry Marv, but the
image of that did a lot to cheer up my mood -- misery does love company!)
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